AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Legislature’s approval of the state budget, Medicaid expansion and a plan to pay the hospitals’ debt have been getting most of the attention, but lawmakers have quietly passed scores of bills outside of state finances throughout the 2013 session that will affect people’s lives.
Ahead of the session’s scheduled Wednesday adjournment, the Democratic-majority Legislature has also passed bills affecting motorists, military veterans, hunters and even its own members, with a bill that prevents House and Senate members from lobbying until a year after they leave office. Republican Gov. Paul LePage has signed them into law.
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